Intervals

On this blog I will be talking about intervals.

Intervals are distances between two notes.

Each interval will have the same distance no matter what key it is. For this example I will be using the Key of C Major that has no sharps or flats.

So as you see up there shows 2 notes/circles/whole notes where number 1 has two notes next to each other. As number 2 has the right side note up one space higher than the note on the left.

Soooooo here’s a list of the first 8 intervals are called.

Perfect Unison – 1 P1

Major Second - 2^nd M2

Major Third - 3^rd M3

Perfect Fourth - 4^th P4

Perfect Fifth - 5^th P5

Major Sixth - 6^th M6

Major Seventh - 7^th M7

Perfect Octave - 8ve P8

The easy way to know which interval it is just simply count the spaces it went up. Starting from the note where it first starts for this example in the picture above of the Key of C Major starts at the C note in the bottom of the staff papper that where C is originally at.

Now looking at it here we got M2, M3, M,6, and M7. Just simply count how many spaces up it takes from the left note to go where the other note is above.

The reason why there is space between them is because one will sound higher than the other. It’s the difference between pitch basically.

If there is anything troubling you please inform so that I could make this more simpler to understand.